The Osbournes, the highest-rated program in MTV's history, chronicles the unorthodox home life of Ozzy, Sharon, and two of their three children. Today is the couple's 20-year wedding anniversary.

Because of the surgery, the first two dates of Osbourne's Ozzfest 2002 summer music tour, in Bristol, Va., and Pittsburgh, have been postponed. A second season of The Osbournes is scheduled to begin airing in the fall.

The rap charts are Nellyville

It's getting hot on the album chart for Nelly. The rapper unseated The Eminem Show, which has been No. 1 for five weeks. Nellyville, which includes the No. 1 single Hot in Herre, sold about 717,000 copies in its first week in stores, according to industry figures released Wednesday.

Another rapper didn't fare nearly so well. Will Smith's Born to Reign debuted at No. 13, selling only about 60,000 copies. The disc features the song Black Suits Comin from Smith's movie Men in Black II.

Surgeons: Come on down, Bob

Game show host Bob Barker will be hospitalized next week to undergo prostate surgery.

Barker, 78, will be hospitalized for two days at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. and will recuperate during the summer hiatus from taping CBS' The Price Is Right, publicist Henri Bollinger said Tuesday.

Barker signed a contract last year to stay on through 2006.

TLC to carry on as a duo

After mourning Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, the surviving members of the band TLC -- Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas -- are back at work on the group's fourth album.

Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds is working with the pair on the new disc. Edmonds told The Associated Press in a recent interview that the women have "held up pretty well."

"There will be ups and downs throughout," he said of the recording process. "There will be times when they'll feel it more than others."

Lopes, 30, died in April after her sport utility vehicle crashed in Honduras. Thomas and Watkins have decided to continue TLC as a duo.

The new record is scheduled for released in the fall. Edmonds said much of it was recorded before Lopes died, so her vocals will be present.

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It's Independence Day, the 185th day of the year; 180 days are left in 2002.

On this date:

In 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

In 1802, the U.S. Military Academy officially opened at West Point, N.Y.

In 1826, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third U.S. presidents, died.

In 1831, James Monroe, the fifth U.S. president, died in New York City.

In 1872, Calvin Coolidge, the 30th U.S. president, was born in Plymouth, Vt.

Thought for today: "Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."